While downtown is the heart of Northfield, riding bicycles there can be a challenge for many people who are not comfortable riding with traffic in the middle of the street,…
Category: <span>Gov’t & Policy</span>
The stormwater pond behind the Jefferson Square Townhomes complex was full a couple of weeks ago after the big rains. The 50 affordable housing units were rehabbed by Dominium…
While biking around downtown earlier tonight, I was surprised tonight to see this sign on the 2nd St. bridge: City of Northfield Drinking Water Supply Management Area For more information…
In June of 2011, I blogged about how the new trees planted in Nov. 2010 on 4th St. downtown after the 4th Street reconstruction had died or become diseased. The…
On June 5, the Northfield City Council decided to use lease/revenue bonds to finance the Safety Center. Councilor Betsey Buckheit has a detailed response in her June 11 blog post…
While riding my bike back home several days last week, I tried to determine how many employee bikes there were in the parking lots of the three medical-related workplaces clustered…
In last week’s Strib: General Mills against gay marriage ban General Mills is taking a stand against a proposed state constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, becoming the most prominent…
Normally, the storm water pond in Hidden Valley Park looks like the photo on the left. Last night, after 6 inches of rain, it was full and slightly overflowing…
There’s a City of Northfield banner at the bottom of the kiosk on Sesquicentennial Plaza promoting the web address of www.northfield.gov, which, as far as I can tell, doesn’t…